*sigh*

[bookaddict43]

I'm sitting here with a heat pack on my leg and frying because it's about 90 degrees out there. Why you ask?

Because I have sciatica.

And have done for nearly two weeks. Strangely my leg and back are fine when I'm standing up, playing soccer or swimming, but the moment I sit or drive the car - agony!!! I'm convinced it's the amount of time I spend driving that causes this and am trying to minimise it for the next couple of days.

The last time I had it this bad was just before we went to Egypt; and sitting in the plane with my leg feeling like that can not be described. Since it's only 16 days (OMG) before I fly out I think I might have to do something about this like visit the doctor or something.

Also real life is bugging me - I have too many things to do and not enough time to spend talking to my friends(I missed ladytalon1 on MSN twice now *sobs*), writing fanfic, reading and doing nothing. Here follows a picture of a fairly regular Friday (yesterday) I'm mainly writing this down to see if I can improve on the rushed aspect of it all, so don't read it if you don't want to :DD...

Rise at 6.00 and let the dog out. Spend 10 minutes slashing at the jungle that is my garden. (we live in the tropics it grows overnight)

6.15 (more or less)Go inside and start making the Little guy's school lunch. My lunch is actually made *jumps up and down*

6.30 go wake the Little guy and remember with a groan that we have both swimming club and soccer that night.

6.32 rush into the laundry and find the swimming bag and pack my soccer gear and his swimming gear and start ironing my trousers which weren't supposed to need ironing *grrr*

6.45 go feed the Little guy and me breakfast and watch the Secret Show a cartoon that I love :D

6.50 It's raining! Grab the broom and sweep the accumulated dust off the verandah (front porch). It stops 3 minutes later *pouts*

7.00 Load up the dishwasher and get LG's school uniform and give it to him

7.10 Shower and all that shit- love that cold water!!!

7.35 Grab all the bags (school, soccer, swimming, my bag)and out the door to tie the dog up. (he will escape otherwise *sigh. We have to leave a few minutes early cause I've run out of fruit for the LG's lunchbox.

7.50 Stop at the fruit shop and buy peaches *yum*

8.00 Drop the child at school and head back to work

8.13 Commence work (we work 8.10 hours a day and thus get a day off every two weeks. Work hard, but my leg hurts so I have to go to the chemist and buy a heat pack. Lunchtime I've got to go buy a salad to take to swimming club and spend writing one of my WIPs...

2.55 Go out to the school to pick up LG, (there's no public transport from our direction to his school)and bring him back to work.

5.15 Go make the salad look home-made and leave for the swimming pool

5.30 Warm-up for the LG and I get to sit down *sigh* and Spend about a million dollars (an exaggeration here) on swimming club stuff for next Saturday's carnival.

6.00 Races start - the LG does well. *woot*

7.20 Races over and the BBQ is on! I was so hungry and ate too much :)

8.00 Collect LG from his game and drive out to the soccer fields.

8.30 Game starts. The LG is way too critical of my playing ability :( *giggles*

9.25 Game over. We lost by one point and will now be in second place on the ladder. My leg didn't hurt once even when I fell over!

9.30 Drive home

9.41 Arrive home! *woot* Go and untie the dog and feed him his tea and have a shower. Fortunately the LG falls asleep on my bed when I'm in the shower.

10.00 Put the washing machine on and sit down with my computer at last *smiles big* Read through my flist, write about 2 lines of one of the ever present WIPs and have a fun time...

11.30 Remember the washing and go hang it out. A frog scares me by staring at me from the washing line *shakes fist*

11.45 Remembers the dishwasher I packed that morning and turns it on. Gives the dog his supper, goes to bed with a heat pack...

Comments

[ladytalon1.livejournal.com]

LOL, you feed the dog tea? Over here we just give them water :p And lol again at the frog scaring at you XD that's quite the day!

I've just now gotten back on the computer after several scares - it locked up completely and said I had 0MB left on the hard drive! I was just waiting for it to crash and give me The Blue Screen Of Death b/c I didn't have enough memory to even DELETE some programs which would free up space. *shrugs* Yeah I don't get it either. Sorry I disappeared, it closed everything! *cries*

[elsibet34.livejournal.com]

Could be that it pinches easiest in a sitting position. Chiropractor? Especially before the long flight. Also, if you're at all nervous about the traveling, I've read that anxiety can aggravate it.

That was a crazy day...

[guinny-hamilton.livejournal.com]

Aww you poor thing! *hugs you*

I agree with elsibet34, a chiropractor might help!

It's probably good to do some exercise, as long as you don't overdo it.

[romanceguru.livejournal.com]

Wow, I don’t envy you! How are you surviving? And then through all that you can’t even enjoy your downtime? *empathizes* I hope you get fixed soon. : )

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

Frogs are very scary! *wibbles* And tea is dinner for the dog :)

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

It was a crazy day - I have sooooo many of them :D But I'm off to the doctors tomorrow...

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

*hugs back* Thank you! Finally today it's feeling a bit better cross your fingers that it lasts!

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

I love that 'happy face'! The leg is almost better I think - all I have to do is stop driving for a while!!!

[bookishtype.livejournal.com]

still think you need to get it looked at - like massaged or something - chiropractor.... sciatica doesn't disappear easily!!!

*shakes finger & tuts*

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

*grins at the finger* Maybe I will :) And good to see you again!!!